They included kidnapping, false imprisonment, rape and five counts that saw the victim forced to insert objects - including a sex toy, a broom handle and a toilet brush - into his bottom.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was initially attacked at a home in Bootle - days after Dagmara Szary “appeared to have taken offence” to mobile phone photos she claimed to have seen.

Dagmara Szary

The court heard that on November 28 of last year, Misiolek approached the victim and without provocation or justification attacked him, punching him before hitting him with an aluminium baseball bat.

He was then ordered into a taxi and driven to Misiolek’s home in Simon’s Croft, Netherton .

There Misiolek and another man, simply referred to as ‘Kamil’, forced the victim to strip naked, repeatedly locked him in a tiny storage cupboard and ordered him to carry out sex acts.

Mr Grant said: “Misiolek said: ‘This is your f***ing punishment’ and then punched him in the face.

“Later Misiolek walked the victim to a small cupboard by the front door, saying to him: ‘You won’t get hurt but you will stay here until Monday and I will feed you once a day’.”

Over the course of the day Misiolek forced the victim in and out of the cupboard, beating and torturing him at intervals.

He bound his ankles and wrists and made him hop around the flat between attacks - at one point holding a kitchen knife to his face and threatening to cut an eye out.

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Mr Grant said: “The prosecution say the victim was tortured and forced by Misiolek to yield to him and forced sexual degradation and humiliation.

“While being subjected to these acts of self-degradation Misiolek said to the victim ‘you need to confess you are a paedophile’.”

Ninety minutes of the nine hour ordeal, described in court as “barbaric”, we’re filmed by Misiolek’s fiance, 27-year-old Anna Baszak.

The torture only ended when the victim heard Misiolek and the others leave the flat while he was locked in the cupboard.

He then kicked himself out, dressed and jumped through a window of the top floor home to escape.

Defending Misiolek, Nicholas Walker said his client accepted wrongdoing, that his offences “bare the hallmarks of improvisation rather than pre-meditation” and that he is “not dangerous”.

He accepted the offences were barbaric but urged Judge David Aubrey QC not to impose an indeterminate sentence - where the length of prison term is not officially set.

Peter Killen, defending Anna Baszak, also of Simon’s Croft in Netherton, described her as vulnerable and slavishly devoted to Misiolek.

Awna Baszak

The mum, whose daughter lives in Poland, was convicted of kidnapping and two counts of causing a male to engage in sexual acts without consent.

Sentencing the pair, Judge Aubrey said: “You sought and did degrade your victim, humiliate him and in truth almost dehumanised him. You sought to punish him, you perceived that he had an attraction to girls. There was in fact very little evidence to support that assertion and conclusion.

"Even if there was, nothing whatsoever can justify, excuse or explain that which occurred to him - save you Daniel Misiolek and your power and your desire to rule.”

Misiolek, who pleaded guilty to most of his offences before a trial, then entered additional guilty pleas after one had begun, was sentenced to life, with a minimum of nine years, minus the 308 days he has already spent in custody.

Baszak was sentenced to 12 years behind bars.

Szary, of Belton Road in Huyton, was convicted of one count of kidnapping.

Paul Becker, defending, said she was a “naive young lady” who did not have anything to do with events in Simon’s Croft.

Judge Aubrey sentenced the 19-year-old to 15 months in a young offenders’ institution.